SALE OF FRIESIANS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 198, 22 August 1928, Page 4

SALE OF FRIESIANS.

The third annual sale of pedigree Prussians will be held at the Hobson farm, Wharepapa. near Helensville, to-morrow. Forty-eight head will be offered, and. a« the Hobson Friesians are noted for their excellent breeding strains and high production, there is certain to be keen competition, particularly as the results of the recent Hawera cheese exports have so clearly demonstrated the great merits of the Friesian dairv breed farmers generally, aDd particularly those interested in city milk supply, should pay a visit to the Hobson farm to inspect the new milking shed there. There is a four-cow plant, with the hanging sanitarv adjoining is a lal 'ge holding aJ na Bqu^ e - completely roofed, and nlfwlT 'rv? ° D 66 mde8 ' open on, y t0 the "°,-, T he concrete floor is kept well r sh , avingß - Ha y racks above. Z.H Tv" troughs below, all capable of being filled from either the unlhl °\^ e ,n / i(le of the building, take up the whole of two sides of the shed aloncr atcr tro ughs are placed practically inr? p Yf ho,e of the front of the buildVjm~« j- ,P -? the shH :,t n'i'king times is divided into two parts, one for ciws m 'on wtt eether^ ther for th<: unmilkcd b f #n f stormy days and nights \ h f he -r ( _ I of forty milch cows (all VhV u rG kept in the -Already the shed has proved of great value in preventing a drop in the yield of milk in that the adoption of this system bv dairv farmers would be highly profitable.